First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
The First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC is an incomplete 101-page document written by John von Neumann and distributed on June 30, 1945 by Herman Goldstine, security officer on the classified ENIAC project. It contains the first published description of the logical design of a computer using the stored-program concept, which has come to be known as the von Neumann architecture; the name has become controversial due to von Neumann's failure to name other contributors.
Title page the First Draft, copy belonging to Samuel N. Alexander, who developed the SEAC computer based on the report.
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Franz Kafka's unfinished writings were released after his death despite his wishes for them to be burned.
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